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Difei Cheng
dblp:302/4192
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3ranked-venue papers
2as first author
3since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0009-1734-5244ORCID · corroborated
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 2 first-author · 3 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Optimization for machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning › convergence guarantees
last-iterate convergence |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Revisit last-iterate convergence of mSGD under milder requirement on step size · NeurIPS 2022 |
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning › stochastic gradient descent
step size schedule |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Revisit last-iterate convergence of mSGD under milder requirement on step size · NeurIPS 2022 |
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning
stochastic gradient descent |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Revisit last-iterate convergence of mSGD under milder requirement on step size · NeurIPS 2022 |
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning › stochastic gradient descent
stochastic gradient descent with momentum |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Revisit last-iterate convergence of mSGD under milder requirement on step size · NeurIPS 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
stochastic gradient descent · 0.6momentum-based SGD · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Convergence analysis of the last iterate in distributed stochastic gradient descent with momentum
Difei Cheng, Ruinan Jin |
Neurocomputing | 1 |
| 2023 | Fast density estimation for density-based clustering methods
Difei Cheng, Ruinan Jin |
Neurocomputing | 1 |
| 2022 | Revisit last-iterate convergence of mSGD under milder requirement on step sizeabstractUnderstanding convergence of SGD-based optimization algorithms can help deal with enormous machine learning problems. To ensure last-iterate convergence of SGD and momentum-based SGD (mSGD), the existing studies usually constrain the step size $\epsilon_{n}$ to decay as $\sum_{n=1}^{+\infty}\epsilon_{n}^{2}<+\infty$, which however is rather conservative and may lead to slow convergence in the early stage of the iteration. In this paper, we relax this requirement by studying an alternate step size for the mSGD. First, we relax the requirement of the decay on step size to $\sum_{n=1}^{+\infty}\epsilon_{n}^{2+\eta_{0}}<+\infty\ (0\le\eta_{0}<1/2)$. This implies that a larger step size, such as $\epsilon_{n}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}$ can be utilized for accelerating the mSGD in the early stage. Under this new step size and some common conditions, we prove that the gradient norm of mSGD for non-convex loss functions asymptotically decays to zero. In addition, we show that this step size can indeed help make the convergence into a neighborhood of the stationary points quicker in the early stage. In addition, we establish the convergence of mSGD under a constant step size $\epsilon_n\equiv\epsilon>0$ by removing the common requirement in the literature on the strong convexity of the loss function. Some experiments are given to illustrate the developed results. Ruinan Jin, Xingkang He, Lang Chen, Difei Cheng, Vijay Gupta 0001 |
NeurIPS | 4 |